The 18-year-old student found out the passwords of two of his teachers to gain access to the school’s system. He is on one year probation, and has the option of spending 20 days in jail or doing 160 hours of community service. So, to all of you thinking of doing the same: you might want to reconsider.  Read more… continue reading...

POTOMAC, MD–(Marketwire - February 20, 2008) - Over 50% of college students taking algebra fail. Colleges haven’t succeeded any better than high schools in teaching algebra despite the presence of free tutoring on most campuses.

Learn Without Limits has launched a new service — Instant Algebra Help (www.InstantAlgebraHelp.com) — that has become a “life saver” for college students struggling with algebra. continue reading...

PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwire - January 31, 2008) - The United States continues to fall behind other major industrialized nations in terms of the percentage of the population with a college degree, according to a recent series of joint studies released by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and Jobs for the Future.

Currently ranked tenth among industrialized countries in the percentage of 25-34-year-olds holding an associate’s degree or higher, the U.S. is projected to slip further, ranking near the bottom in the percentage of entering students that complete a degree program. Notably, the U.S. now stands as one of the only countries where older adults are more educated than younger adults. continue reading...

LITTLETON, Colo., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Applying to college is nothing if not a high-stress experience. High school seniors across the country are staying up until the wee hours of the morning to fill out applications and write essays for numerous colleges and universities and simultaneously struggling to maintain their grades. To ease this stress, CollegeZapps, LLC (http://www.collegezapps.com) today announced the addition of over 154 colleges and universities to the CollegeZapps web site.

“Spending hours filling out applications for seven colleges is a good way to get a hand cramp and a headache,” said Colorado St. Mary’s Academy senior Claire Godbolt. “I’d be on break at my school and trying to finish applications for college. I would much rather be enjoying my senior year or sleeping. I didn’t really have a top choice yet, for me all I knew is that I wanted to go out of state.” continue reading...

(PRWEB) October 31, 2007 — There’s no doubt that today students are under intense pressure to perform academically, but at what cost? The Institute of HeartMath® (www.heartmath.org) and Claremont Graduate University (www.cgu.edu) released a new study that depicts the high levels of anxiety students are shouldering due to the pressure to excel intellectually. Nearly two-thirds of the high school students who participated in the study reported being affected by test anxiety. The study underscores the detrimental impact of test anxiety on academic performance. Based on their findings, researchers say that students’ high levels of anxiety may jeopardize NCLB assessment validity and could be compromising testing results.

HeartMath researchers explain that feelings of anxiety drive up the level of “noise” or mental static to such a pitch that it overloads the circuits in the brain needed for paying attention, learning, focusing, and remembering. continue reading...

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) July 3, 2007 — Based on the results and feedback of thousands of students, teachers and parents around the world, Learning Upgrade has fined-tuned its popular online reading course, Reading Upgrade, to help students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities overcome reading blocks and effectively learn how to read. continue reading...

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 20, 2007 — Home School students from across America stand out as champions, this year, in three of the nation’s biggest competitions: The 80th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, The 5th Annual National Word Power Competition, and the 19th Annual National Geographic Bee. Each champion praised the flexibility of the Home School Curriculum and the dedicated help of their Home School teachers for their wins.
Evan O’Dorney (thirteen), champion of the much coveted 80th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, prepared for his win by juggling balls around the living room; while, being drilled by his Home School teacher - his mother. Surprisingly, Evan was more excited to talk about his love of math at a post-win interview. This well-rounded bright young man is also an accomplished pianist and Tae Kwon Do, level one, black belt. Evan’s Home School Curriculum affords him the flexibility to study in his own way, at his own pace and this Home School scholar certainly excels.

In fact, many children excel in the self-paced, family-oriented, Home School environment. On the Scripps official website it listed that out of the 286 contestants participating at this year’s Bee, five of the fifteen listed, as this years’ top contenders were Home School scholars. continue reading...

Probably not, because the cost has simply spiraled out of control, and education is in many ways less important than experience.  Of course, to get the best experience you need a get education.

Read more on MSN Encarta’s take here. continue reading...

PHOENIX, AZ — (MARKET WIRE) — May 03, 2007 — Each year the cost of a college education continues to increase, along with the debt that students incur in order to finance their education. New proposed student loan legislation is under consideration to lower interest rates and accomplish other helpful initiatives that reduce the burden of funding college but has not yet been enacted. States have rallied to the cause, working in tandem with university administrators to implement policies that greatly reduce tuition for in-state residents and lower-income students. However, a little-considered method for reducing debt when attending college comes down to students acting as their own “college funding resource” by completing comprehensive, in-depth scholarship searches for FREE money, according to NextStudent, the leading Phoenix-based education funding company. In fact, since most students and their parents don’t spend enough time in their attempt to find FREE money for college, they are more likely to miss the unique opportunities that greatly would reduce the amount they borrow.

There are quite a few more scholarships out there than most people realize; it just takes a significant commitment of time and effort to uncover them, which most people fail to do. There are over $3.4 billion in total awards from more than 2.4 million scholarships available from some 42,000 funding sources that may be located through NextStudent’s free, online Scholarship Search Directory. Unfortunately, many of these awards remain unclaimed, largely since people may not know the awards are available or because they fail to fully qualify. continue reading...